About Us

Jeff Montgomery
- July 25, 2018 15:04

RPGNow.com is part of a family of premiere online marketplaces including RPGNow, DriveThruRPG, DriveThruCards, DMsGuild, DriveThruComics, DriveThruFiction, and Wargame Vault. Together, we have been selling digital and print-on-demand comic books, roleplaying games, and fiction since 2001. As of 2016, we have launched multiple community content programs as well as our Community Card Creator for fans to create content for some of their favorite roleplaying and card games.

A Brief History of OneBookShelf

2001

James Mathe launches RPGNow the same year Apple launches iTunes. It may be common today to download a book and read it on a computer, tablet, or phone, but RPGNow and a handful of roleplaying game publishers pioneered downloadable PDFs in the gaming community.

2004

Mike Todd, Chris McDonough, and Steve Wieck start DriveThruRPG. The combined efforts of DriveThruRPG and RPGNow make both out-of-print and in-print RPGs easily available in electronic format to fans around the world.

2005

DriveThruComics (the first online retailer to specialize in downloadable comics) and DriveThruFiction are launched, following the success of DriveThruRPG.

2006

RPGNow and DriveThru merge to form OneBookShelf. The sites are integrated so that customers can log into any of the sites using one customer account.

2013

OneBookShelf, in conjunction with Wizards of the Coast, launches DnDClassics, a marketplace dedicated to selling PDFs of Dungeons & Dragons products from every edition of the world’s most popular roleplaying game.

2015

DriveThruCards partners with Paizo to create the first card creator platform for Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. The Community Card Creator is a web application at DriveThruCards that allows you to you create, print, and share your own cards ideas. Boss Monster, Murder of Crows, and Button Men follow soon after.

2016

OneBookShelf, in partnership with Wizards of the Coast, launches DMsGuild, a community content program that allows creators to make content using Wizards of the Coast properities. DMsGuild replaces DnDClassics.

After the successful launch of DMsGuild, more community content programs followed including Cortex Plus Creator Studio (Margaret Weis).

A Family of Sites

Your customer account gives you access to all of our inter-related sites. Purchases on any site go into your shared Library of digital files which you can access from any of the sites.

DriveThruRPG and RPGNow

We are currently the largest online marketplace devoted to RPG and RPG-related materials. With us, thousands of publishers—from big names you’ve seen in print, such as Wizards of the Coast and White Wolf Publishing, to our industry’s many talented small press innovators—have come together to list over ten thousand roleplaying titles to make sure you can get what you want when you want it..

DriveThruCards

Connecting card game designers and fans with a marketplace that makes use of high-quality cards custom printed to every order.

DriveThruComics

The first downloadable comic store on the web featuring a wide selection of publishers and creators.

DriveThruFiction

Features titles from publishers and independent authors across a wide range of speculative fiction genres.

Wargame Vault

Get your grognard on. Wargame Vault has an armory full of wargaming rules, accessories, paper terrain, and other essentials.

DMsGuild

In partnership with Wizards of the Coast, we created DMsGuild. DMsGuild is a new community content program where creators use Wizards of the Coast intellectual property to make new content. Also, all the editions of D&D are available again on DMsGuild.

Ulisses Spiele eBooks

In partnership with German rpg publisher Ulisses Spiele, we operate the Ulisses EBook site featuring digital editions of Ulisses titles.

Pegasus Digital

In partnership with German rpg publisher Pegasus Spiele, we operate the Pegasus Digital site featuring digital editions of Pegasus titles.